This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2019 calendar year. The dataset for the year was the last to show typical patterns of mobility prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with many major central London stations dropping in the ranking the following year.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 268 stations in 2019. [lower-alpha 1] In 2019, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 88.27 million passengers, while Kensington (Olympia) was the least used, with 109,430 passengers. Data for 2019 was published on 1 April 2020 and was revised on 29 May 2020. [1]
This table shows the busiest stations with over 33 million entries and exits in 2019.
Rank (2019) | Station | Zone(s) | 2019 | 2018 [lower-alpha 2] | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
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1 | King's Cross St. Pancras | 88.27 | 89.82 | 97.92 | 95.03 | 93.41 | 91.98 | 84.87 | 80.97 | 77.11 | 72.58 | |
2 | Victoria | 85.47 | 84.47 | 79.36 | 83.50 | 82.89 | 86.73 | 84.58 | 82.96 | 82.25 | 79.93 | |
3 | Waterloo | 82.93 | 76.54 | 91.27 | 100.36 | 95.14 | 91.49 | 89.40 | 88.16 | 84.12 | 81.57 | |
4 | Oxford Circus | 78.07 | 76.40 | 84.09 | 83.26 | 92.36 | 98.51 | 85.25 | 80.55 | 77.09 | 70.12 | |
5 | London Bridge | 74.34 | 70.20 | 69.05 | 70.74 | 71.96 | 74.98 | 69.88 | 67.16 | 65.44 | 60.79 | |
6 | Liverpool Street | 67.20 | 65.03 | 67.74 | 71.61 | 73.26 | 73.66 | 67.89 | 64.23 | 63.65 | 62.72 | |
7 | Stratford | 64.85 | 64.73 | 61.99 | 67.05 | 61.44 | 59.31 | 54.50 | 50.96 | 48.57 | 29.82 | |
8 | Bank and Monument [lower-alpha 3] | 61.79 | 54.77 | 61.80 | 64.26 | 57.51 | 52.31 | 48.88 | 47.75 | 47.80 | 43.50 | |
9 | Paddington [lower-alpha 4] | 48.61 | 44.60 | 48.82 | 49.48 | 49.64 | 49.28 | 49.71 | 46.33 | 46.48 | 44.00 | |
10 | Canary Wharf | 47.69 | 43.62 | 50.91 | 54.79 | 54.44 | 51.81 | 50.05 | 48.04 | 46.59 | 41.53 | |
11 | Tottenham Court Road [lower-alpha 5] | 41.99 | 38.73 | 41.33 | 39.35 | 16.25 | 36.76 | 38.06 | 36.01 | 23.99 | 34.55 | |
12 | Euston | 41.09 | 31.51 | 43.07 | 43.10 | 42.16 | 41.33 | 38.03 | 37.53 | 35.32 | 33.57 | |
13 | Green Park | 39.06 | 37.81 | 39.34 | 41.24 | 39.55 | 39.83 | 35.46 | 33.99 | 31.72 | 29.37 | |
14 | Piccadilly Circus | 38.40 | 39.61 | 40.82 | 41.29 | 42.80 | 42.93 | 41.70 | 42.36 | 40.58 | 39.68 | |
15 | Bond Street | 37.49 | 36.75 | 38.80 | 39.53 | 37.12 | 19.80 | 39.65 | 38.07 | 36.02 | 36.87 | |
16 | Leicester Square | 34.56 | 35.07 | 36.73 | 37.84 | 43.75 | 43.31 | 38.60 | 38.51 | 38.78 | 36.94 | |
18 | South Kensington | 33.07 | 32.25 | 33.86 | 33.60 | 33.87 | 36.46 | 32.75 | 32.50 | 30.61 | 29.78 |
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Kensington (Olympia) is a combined rail and tube station in Kensington, on the edge of Central London. Services are provided by London Overground, who manage the station, along with Southern and London Underground. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. On the Underground it is the terminus of a short District line branch from Earl's Court, originally built as part of the Middle Circle. On the main-line railway it is on the West London Line from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, by which trains bypass inner London. The station's name is drawn from its location in Kensington and the adjacent Olympia exhibition centre.
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